SummerSlam (2010) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and presented by 7-Eleven and Slim Jim, that took place on August 15, 2010, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California for the second consecutive year. It was the twenty-third annual SummerSlam event and six matches took place.

SummerSlam received 350,000 pay-per-view buys, a decrease on the 369,000 buys garnered by SummerSlam (2009).

The professional wrestling matches at SummerSlam featured professional wrestlers performing as characters in scripted events pre-determined by the hosting promotion, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Storylines between the characters were produced on WWE's weekly television shows Raw and SmackDown with the Raw and SmackDown brands—storyline divisions in which WWE assigned its employees to different programs.

On the July 19 episode of Raw, Randy Orton defeated Edge and Chris Jericho in a Triple Threat match to face Sheamus for the WWE Championship at SummerSlam. On the August 9 episode of Raw, Raw General Manager added two stipulations to the match, stating that anyone who interfered would be suspended indefinitely and if Orton lost, he wouldn't receive another title match while Sheamus is champion.

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